By Shayna Jacobs
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — A former data clerk for the city's Department of Finance pleaded guilty Wednesday to running a $24,000 parking summons scam out of a Brooklyn bodega.
Karen Frazier, 42, was a data entry clerk for the city agency, but told summons recipients in 2009 she could "take care of" their tickets in exchange for half the fee, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
Instead, she would pocket most of the money and wrote bad checks to cover the costs of the tickets she was pretending to expunge, prosecutors said.
She even illegally dismissed six tickets outright, prosecutors said.
"This type of deceitful behavior by a public employee ultimately defrauds the City of essential public funds, and damages the trust between government and taxpayers," Manhattan DA Cy Vance Jr. said.
Frazier is expected to be sentenced on Dec. 1.
